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Not disagreeing with you necessarily, although, how do we know we're better off for it if we don't know what's on the list?
by asow92 3y ago
Not disagreeing with you necessarily, although, how do we know we're better off for it if we don't know what's on the list?
- nickthegreek 3y agoYou don't and they are under no obligation to provide this list. It is not clear to me that providing the list would be constructive either. A good witch hunt will at least point out a plausible witch.
- asow92 3y ago> It is not clear to me that providing the list would be constructive I agree, it can't be clear unless you know what's on the list. More transparency is better than less, right? We're all adults here.
- em-bee 3y agoWe're all adults here well, that is under dispute. if we were, then we would not have to deal with spam.
- asow92 3y agoTouché, although, I'd still rather know than not know, ya know?
- nickthegreek 3y agoIt could very well be detrimental to release the list. More transparency does not necessarily mean better. Not everyone is an adult, not every adult behaves like an adult. As an adult myself, I have not seen mod behavior that would lead me to believe that there is some sordid conspiracy. Let alone start demanding this place start publishing their private lists that make this corner of the internet not a hellscape.
- asow92 3y ago>It could very well be detrimental to release the list. I guess we'll never know, right?
- jjoonathan 3y agoEven if the list were public, its enforcement will still involve a million subtle decisions that you have no hope of ever personally litigating with anything approaching fairness, but the moderators' jobs would be much harder because you can bet that every bad faith actor on that list would rush to clog up the forum with "informal appeals." It always comes back to trust and experience.
- asow92 3y agoNot sure about others, but I'm loosing trust from this experience.
- pixl97 3y agoYou shouldn't trust anything online, but also remember that the intent of bad actors is to ensure that you lose any trust with the firehose of falsehood.
- asow92 3y agoThe irony here is that I shouldn't trust this either.
- slowmovintarget 3y ago[dead]
- r721 3y agoYou can switch "showdead" setting to "yes", and look for posts marked "[dead]" in https://news.ycombinator.com/newest https://news.ycombinator.com/newest (though those also can be from shadow-banned users, not based on domain only).
- asow92 3y agoDidn't know this, thanks!